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Dry Goods, etc.

n. II. Allen Il Co., Albany, Or, have
in stock the most complete line of fine
dress goods, silks, velvets, ete., this
side of Portland. Also wash fabrics of
all kinds, and late novelties in every
line. Ladies, when in Albany, call on
Allen 6c Co., and inspect stock and
prices. Samples sent upon application
when desired. noS-3m
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When in Albany call upon n. II. Al
len Il Co., ii you need anything in the
boot and shoe line. They have In stock
full line of IL. ]. Holhrook 4 Cos.
fine shoes, for ladies and ehildren--the
best In the market. Also G.. NJ. Hen
derson Il Cos. fine shoes for gentleman.
None better made. They guarantee all
goods rs represented. noS-3m
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OakvIIle Notes.

June >.
The farmers of this section are busy
plowing summer fallow.
Drs. Gaff and Tantis, of Shedd, Wis
tied Oakvflle last Sabbath.
The Oakville Temperance Alliance
will meet on Tuesday, June 7th, at $50
L. NJ.
The dogs or wolves have done con-
siderable damage to sheep. Mr.. NJ.
Slough had seven head badly torn
about the head, but none dangerously:
The Oakville Temperance Alliance
and w. c. I. H., with the aid of the
Temperance Wideawakes, will give q
picnic Saturday, June 18th, 10 which
you, Mr.. Editor, and all others are cor.
daily invited. :. \. Y.
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Picnic.

On the 1lth of this month at Soda
vile there will be held picnic in the
interest of Prohibition. DIR. Watts and
others viii address the people on this
important subject. Let everyone at
tend. 1t will certainly be an occasion
of enjoyment, as well as advancing the
noble cause of temperance.
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Election of Officers.

At regular meeting Of Lebanon
Lodge No. AZ Oft. o. o. r. on Saturday
evening May %, the following officers
were elected: N-G., A. a. KEGS, V. G..
". C.. Peterson; Secretary. 7. ". Set
lie: Treasurer. G. "A. Bland.
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Ths Escort.

Lebanon was visited Thursday by
VIM. G. irvine, Northwestern Agent
for j. i. Pace Tobacco Co. Richmond,
Virginia From the amount of SAM
Piles of Escort Plug, chewing, he gave
away we think they have every conii-
cort is simply fine. All our stores are
getting il.
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Getting.

Rev. Wooley, Of the c. P. church,
this place, hereby gives notice that the
caTnpmeeting to be held at Sodaville,
will commence on Friday, June 18th,
two weeks from to-day. Remember
the date
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NJ f. Hearn informs us that the
sale of tickets over the o. II G. at the
Lebanon depot for the month of May
exceeds that for the same month OF
last wear by $40.
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DIED.

Thursday, May d. 1857, OF
quick consumption Henry J. SALTMAIsII, aged
~ years, months aud days.
Henry young man highly respected for
the many virtues he possessed. About one ye.I
asohe became converted. and up 10 the time OF
his death led consistent Christian life. lie pa
over the river leaving every evidence of blissful
immortality. Rest in peace.
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F. III. Roscoe & Co. will not be un-
dcrsold by any hardware house this
side of Portland Come and see for
yourselves.
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Standard mowers and sulky rakes
eXcels all others. At
i. III. ROSCOE d Co.'S.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-06-03

Buggies and hacks of all kinds at f
He Roscoe Il Co.'S.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-06-03

Money TO loan, 10y Curran & Mon
tcith, Albany, Oregon. If
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-06-03

One dollar in advance pays for THE
EMPRESS from now until November 10.
Probibiuonists, support the paper that
fights your battles for you.
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For good meal, go TO the City Res
taurant Albany. Meals p cents. If
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15

..Come on, then, TAD said his COM
panion, with an uneasy glance at the
back kitchen, which Tad did not quite
understand, and with his words Joe
lodged hastily behind the barn. fol-
lowed by Tad; but, alas! he was too
latei
From the open kitchen-window came
the cry, in his sister Nell's voice:
,'tJo-seph!-comer right into the house
father wants your
''Darn it allr' muttered Joe, with a
vindictive kick at the fence-rail; now
I've got to catch it"
'Catch whatp" wonderingly asked
Tad, though with an intuitive suspicion
that Joe was not referring to the pros
pective catch of trout.
Joe did not reply, but with gloomy
and vengeful expression, skunk into the
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fro BE CONTINUED
PREMATURE WRINKLES.
burrows Plowed In the Forehead by Con
slant Care and worrinent.

| burrows Plowed In the Forehead by Con-
| slant Care and WorriInent.
| Wrinkles are as natural to old age as
| is a full, smooth face to childhood.
They are due, mainly, to a certain
| shrinkage of the muscles-a shrinkage
which characterizes, more or less, the
entire system in the later period of life.
1t is in consequence of this general
shrinkage that in advanced life the
height is somewhat lowered; that the
substance of the jaws contracts, thus
| often giving rise, by pressure on the
| nerves that pass through the bony
canals, to severe and difficult neural
gia: and that the brain substance be-
comes reduced in bulk, water filling
the vacant space. Were it not for the
fixed habits and accumulated resources
of lifetime, an old mans brain would
not be equal to the work which he still
performs easily.
There is, of course, much difference
between old people in this respect,
which is due largely to temperament,
habits of thought and of feeling and
modes of life. The papers lately told
of a man over one hundred years old.
whose face was wholly without
wrinkles. This was a very exceptional
case. For the great body of us, if we
attain length of days, must take them
with the addition of physical decay.
While wrinkles result from the nat
ural working of the system, they may
also be caused by a perverted condition
of the system, as are pimples, blotches
and boils. Now the human face-un-
like that of brutes-was meant to be
the mirror of the mind" the visible
expression of every passion, emotion
and inmost feeling. Herein is its chief
beauty. Hence its numerous muscles
and nerves, whereby it is so wonder
fully adjusted to this end. But muscles
in constant or frequent exercise in
crease in volume, strength and readi-
ness of action. Hence habits of thought
and feeling become stamped on the
face, and we read so easily the char
acter of the proud, the vain, the deceit
the calm, the energetic, the frank, the
candid and the honest man.
But there is nothing like care and
worriment to pillow burrows in the fore
head, and these are badly marring the
faces OF our American women. We
pass in the streets women of thirty-five
whose foreheads are more wrinkled
than the brow should be at seventy.
Some of these may not have more
cares than others, but they unneces-
sarily yield to the tendency to express
them in the face Youths Coeqocrscz
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
DEMOCRATIC NOTES.

As a roarer and shorter the RI
diculous Riddleberger sizes up with
Tuttle. Philadelphia Record.
If ever there was party which
could i'll afford public extravaganza as
an issue it is the Republican organiza-
tion.-Neao Rdve71 Ne0OS.
MIR. Blaine has been very chary
of interviews and speeches in Ireland.
He is apparently afraid of becoming
his own Burchard. N Y. Herald.
John Sherman will not be mis-
understood in Alaska at any rate.
They know all the nice points about
icebergs in Alaska--St. Louis Repu6-
EtcGn.
As soon as the Ohio campaign
shall be fairly opened the responsible
ty for the drought and bad crops at
the West will be unhesitatingly placed
upon the Democratic party.-M T.
World.
On the whole, the present sum-
mer has been favorable to Mr.. Sher-
man. He is, perhaps, the only politi-
clan who, if chosen President, could
reduce the country's ice bills.-Louis-
viHe C0urierJoarnGL.
There is no uncertain tone about
the platform of the Pennsylvania Re
publicans. They are heartily and
unanimously for the old flag with
little and an appropriation with a
great big A.-Bostos Globe.
The Republican party can at
tribute its downfall to the greed of its
office-holders and its unprinc: pied
leaders The party once stood upon
high moral ground, but it has fallen
through the fact that the people no
longer have confidence in it. -CLeUe-
land Plain Dealer.
The Democrats no sooner reached
Washington than they demanded that
the country be put in state of defense.
The contracts given out for new YES
sells show that the party in power is
both earnest and patriotic The days
of joobery are over and the people will
by and by have a navy. N T. Herald.
We trust that the Northern peo-
pie will soon learn that the Southern
Confederacy is defunct-''died on the
field of honor"-and that there is no
more probability of a new Southern
Confederacy than there is of a con-
federacy between Virginia and the
Northwestern States. This is our
country. Richmond Dispatch
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why, after father-got through
with me-" returned Joe, while = hui
morous smile began to hover about his
mouth, The set me churning, and went
OF down town on an errand. Mother,
she was sent for to go over to Mis-
Emory's, all of sudden, and, by gra-
cious! said Joe, rubbing his shout
ders, 81 thought my arms would just
unhinge out of the sockets before the
butter came. Well, Nell, she took the
butter down into the cellar kitchen to
work it, and forgot to empt' the churn
Gas mother always does), and whilst
she was down there continued Joe,
whose smile had begun to broaden, al
saw father coming up the walk. so what
does do but get hold of the clurn-
dashos again. Father. he came in.
There, my SOM he says, L guess
you've been punished enough-you can
60 now and then he took the churn-
dasher right out of my hand. If moth
er hasn't got back, or if Nell don't
come upstairs added Joe, with an
irrepressible smoker, al expect likely
he's churning buttermilk now"
As Tad knew rather less than a Hot
tentot regarding the mysteries of churn-
ing, the point of Joe's little joke was
not perfectly clear to his own mind.
And perhaps, on second thought, Joe
might have remembered that the tacit
deception practiced toward his father
was not exactly in keeping with his pro-
fessed penitence of moment or two
previous, for he made no attempt to
enlighten his companion, but, taking
up his pole, said, rather hastily, that
he guessed they'd better be getting to-
ward home, as it was considerably
past dinner-time.
About halfway down Mill brook
were the ruins of an old saw-mill.
Here, among the great timbers below
the dam, the water made deep eddies
and shady hooks, where trout love to
lie in the heat of the day.
Throw in there, Tad" said Joe,
pointing to spot where the dark water
rushed around the end of the broker
fume like a mill-race.
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Enthusiastic Rhode Islanders.

The Rhode Island Democrats are so
much encouraged over the good work.
they did this spring that they are go
ing to work with will in the hope of
carrying the Western Congressional
district Gn which there was no choice
in April, although the Democratic cam
didate had plurality at the special
election in November. They purpose
following this up by carrying the State
next spring, and then placing it SO Sc
curely in the Democratic column that
its electoral vote may be depended
upon for Cleveland. They may not
succeed in doing all they have set out
to accomplish, but the only way to win
political victories is to work earn estly
for them.-DetrOit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
ROBIN AND ROBIN.

. robin, you sit your perch and sing.
Or the water about from the dish you fling.
Or scatter the berries, you frolicsome thing
And the saucer turn fitting over.
Q robin, you darling, love you much:
But there is another whose slightest touch
And faintest whisper my heart can thrill.
And whose eyes can dutter me at his will.
And, robin, that's Robin my lover.
Your cage is gilded and builded fine;
There strength and an airy grace combine
But it's not so rare as the'cage of mine
Which Robin is building to hold me.
And soon shall sit with folded wing,
And my very soul to its depths will sing;
And though it may rain, or though it may snow,
What shall I care if it do, or no,
While his loving arms infold me?
OF all the birds on the tree or in nest
The robins The one that love the best.
With his homely plumage and ochrey breast;
But Robin, MY lover, was dearer
When he told Of his love to my thirsty ear,
With only the listening angels near,
And his soul sought mine with a long, long kiss,
And my heart beat quick in my Speechless bliss,
And Heaven somehow seemed nearer.
Tho lush grass grows of an emerald hue,
The river is tinged with beautiful blue,
And the sunbeams print with a rainbow tint
The sky that is spreading above me;
The rivulet laughs as it upward trips,
The diamonds flash where the water drips;
And never a storm and never a cloud
May sweep the vale, or the sky enshroud,
While Robin is here to love me.
. Robin, my Robin, your steps I hear,
With a silvery sound they are drawing near,
And the music they make to my ravished ear
The portal of JOY uncloses.
Ylong for your chances my life to bless;
yearn for your tender and fond caress-
Oh, the very ground that your footsteps press
Is covered with lilies and roses!
Thomas Dunn English
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
CHAPTER VIII.


Who that was ever boy has forgot
ten, or will forget, his first fishing ex-
perience? No matter whether it was
angling for minnows from the wharf,
with pin-hook, catching pumpkin
seeds from the mill-pond logs or fol-
lowing up an alder-fringed brook in
pursuit of trout-he will be sure to re-
member it great deal longer than he
will the more important episodes of his
later life. And 1 know one in particular
who will always remember his boyish
debut in the fishing line-I mean Tad
Thorne.
1t was the Saturday morning follow
ing Tad's peculiar Introduction to Miss
Smith, and an unusually mild day for
a New England April, which uncertain
month is very apt to seem so much like
March as to resemble younger
brother.
Joe and Tad were digging bait in
Deacon Whitney's barn-yard; that is,
Joe did the digging while Tad placed
the angle-worms in a round tin must
iard-boS. with ventilating cover.
THERE said Joe, Strengthening up,
sand now, Tad-you plaguey old tat
tlc-tale!'
Tad looked up in dire astonish-
flent; but the conclusion of Joe's sem
tence was evidently not addressed to
himself.
1t was churning-day at Deacon Whit
ney's, and Joe's eyes were fixed on the
retrcating form of Miss Smiths hired
help who had come over to bespeak
some buttermilk for Miss Smiths pig.
Samantha Mason was given to gossip,
and Joe's guilty conscience at once
assured him that she had lost no time
in telling the story of his late humorous
performance to the deacon, Mrs. Whit
ney and his sister Nell.
81 guess we'd better be Off" re-
marked Joe, rather hastily; land, in
stead of going out the front way, we'll
take a short cut down through the
fields. You've got your lines all
fightP"
Tad tapped his pocket significantly,
and adjusted the tin-box cover while
Joe was putting the shovel back in the
harm.
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grayely, as he str1ng the small fish on
a twig, and made his way little fur
ther upstream, in his ignorance pass
ing over the deep pools and swelling
eddies, which are generally the Turk
ing-places of the spotted beauties.
By eleven o'clock, Tad. who had
caught seven clubs, each about afinger
in length, began TO think that the
charm of trouting had been consider
ably overstated. 1t was rather early
in the season for mosquitoes, yet there
were quite enough of them about to
make it quite lively for a fisherman.
He had assembled the brook about two
miles, and was tired and decidedly
hungry; and, moreover, he found him
self right in the heart of what seemed
to Tad's 1naccustomed eyes bound
less forest.
Sitting down on a stump, Tad gazed
about him, wondering at the solemn
silence. Overhead, the wind sighed
softly through the tops of the great
pines. Red squirrels chittered in the
spruce and hemlock trees, and a par
ticularly venturesome one dropped a
cone from an overhanging bough at his
very feet, vanishing among the branches
with wonderful swiftness, as Tad
looked suddenly up. A partridge
drummed in the distance, and wood
chuck scampered rapidly through the
underbrush at little way off.
81 wonder if there are any bears in
these woods" thought Tad, with an
uncomfortable thrill pervading his
frame at the bear possibility. I'D
either have to run or climb a tree if
saw one coming" he thought, "and
yet, what good would that do. where
bears can climb and run rather better
than most boys" In juvenile paper
he had read how one "boy hero" thus
surprised, had hastily lashed his open
jack-knife to the end of a pole, and
boldly attacking the savage beast, had
slain him by fortunate thrust. Tad
mechanically took out his own jack
knife, and opened the two-inch blade
of the best cast-iron.
81 couldn't do much with that" he
thought, "but l suppose
"G-r-r-r-r"'
A terrible growl, accompanied by a
rustling in the thicket of small pines
close at hand, sent Tad's heart into his
very throat There was not even time
to splice the knife to the fish-pole, for
the growl and rustling were repeated
louder and nearer than before!
The hackneyed expression, ito sell
his life dearly" flashed into Tad's
mind, and, bracing himself against the
tree-stump-somewhat in the
Come one, come all-this rock shall fly
From its firm base, as soon as T.
attitude-he held his open jack-knife in
his hand. and awaited the overcoming
monster!
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EQUAL TO THE SITUATION.

Tad secretly thought that any trout
venturesome enough to trust himself in
such swift current would be swept
down stream in a twinkling. But he
obeyed. and
Good gracious! had a sturgeon or a
young whale seized his bait! His line
went cutting through the dark waters,
and the top of the alder pole bent oini-
nously.
TO BE CONTINUED
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CHAPTER *.

| The Spruce-buSheS parted suddenly;
but, instead of disclosing the form of a
| ferocious bear. nothing more fOrmida-
BILE than the good-humored features of
Joe Whitney, adorned with an ex-
pressive grin, was revealed. There
| were traces of recent tears on his
| freckled face; yet mirth beamed from
| his eye, and it was evident that the re-
! cent punishment had not had very
! depressing effect on his animal spirits.
Thought was bear, didn't you,
TadP" he remarked, laughing. And
Tad, too much relieved at the prospect
of companionship to feel very angry,
answered, with feeble smile, that he
tcds kind of startled, and made haste
to change the subject.
"rve got seven trout, but they're aw-
full small" said Tad, producing his
catch, with a rather disconsolate air.
Joe started, whistled and then
roared.
"Why, you goosie!'' he shouted, but
SO good-naturedly that it was impos-
sible to be angry with him, ''those
amt trout-they' chubsr'
Poor Tad felt tremendously morti-
fed. but speedily forgot his mortifi-
cation in real honest admiration of a
string of trout-the largest of which
would not weigh quite quarter of a
pound-that Joe brought out, together
with an alder pole, from the thicket
where he had enacted the bear.
II dug some bait on the way, and
caught these little fellows coming
along" explained Joe, as he held them
up before his companions admiring
gaze.
''Oh, scouldn't 1 like to catch just
one troutr' sighed Tad; and Joe
stoutly assured him not TO worry-he'd
put him up to catching more than one
perhaps half dozen-before they
returned.
Ibid it hurt you very muchP'' in
CURED Tad, presently, with delicate
reference to the cause of his compan-
ions detention.
THE pasteboard wasn't quite low
down enough" said Joe, mournfully,
and Tad asked no further questions.
Father didn't fog me for just hav-
ing little fun with you and Miss
Smith," Joe went on after a short
pause, "but because he said 1 as good
as lied when I made her think that
yom was deaf, and you think that she
was"
We'll" returned Tad, hesitatingly,
81 don't know-you didn't mean to say
what wasn't true, any way"
NO." said Joe, frankly; II didn't! 1
hate q square up and down lie es bad
as the next one; but, come to study on
it over, 1 guess we fellows don't stop to
think long enough, sometimes, and lie
when we don't mean to; anyhow, do,
and I'm going to try and stop it,
This was quite an admission for Joe,
who was generally very chary of ac-
knowledging his faults. But he had
begun to feel strong boyish affection
for his companion, and spoke more
openly to him than he was in the habit
of doing.
''But what made you so long getting
here?" asked Tad. breaking the little
silence that followed
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CHAPTER vH.-CoNr1NUED.
al guess you'll do" she finally said,
eat least I'm minded to try you. so you
can come over and begin work early
Monday morning"
THANK you, marm," replied Tad,
with beaming face. "I'll be here early;
and though I'm kind of green, Miss
Smith," he added, earnestly, 'rll learn
just as fast as ever can. and work all
the harder to make up"
"Wen, Wen see," was the only re-
ply. Miss Smiths faith in Juvenile
promises had been rudely shattered by
the frequent breakages that she had
known in her experience. At the same
time she felt rather drawn toward this
pale-faced orphaned boy-though she
would not have owned it, even to her
own self
Don't you let that Joe Whitney lead
you into any mischief before you get
back to Cap'n Flagg's," said Miss
Smith, sharply, raising her voice for
Joe's editication, as Tad joined him
outside the gate.
"Now, Miss Smith," expostulated the
injured youth, "that isn't fairr' The
maiden lady smiled significantly, and,
muttering something about innocent
Abigail" resumed raking, while Tad.
exultant over his future prospects. fore
bore to reproach his mischievous COM
panion for the little episode have mar
rated, and the two walked away to-
gether in the most amicable manner.
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CHAPTER VII.-CoNr1NUED.

copyrighted, 1856, By d. Lottrop % Co.. and
Published By Special Arrangcnsent.l
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
Adventures Of Tad;
HAPS AND MISHAPS OF ALOST SACHEL
a Story for Young and Old.
BY FRANK H. CONVERSE,

AUTHOR OF PEPPER ADAMS" "BLOwN OUT
TO SEA" paul GRAFTON" ETC.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-15
Republican Corruption.

AS fair sample of the way in xhich
the people of the country have been
plundered by Republican manage
ment, it may be mentioned that though
that management not only gave the
Pacific railroad companies land and
money enough to build their roads,
those companies have kept up the
freights on their roads by an enormous
system of subsidies to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company to prevent COM
petition, the Union Pacific, from Sep
TENDER. 1871, to March, 1886, paying
81. 994, 900; the Central Pacific, 2.03O..
900, and the Southern Pacific 1856, 600,
since 1888. Alexandria (Td.J Gazette.